linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add firmware file for r8712u (RTL8192SU)

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Date:	Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:38:24 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add firmware file for r8712u (RTL8192SU)

On 10/19/2010 03:29 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 October 2010 20:21:53 Larry Finger wrote:
>
> Ok, so if you have the firmware source, add a proper make file and the source along
> with the binary file. You made it sound like the you only had the firmware as
> a hexdump, which would not be possible under the GPLv2 section 3, which says
> "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making
> modifications to it".

Having a patch with the full firmware source and the binary as well seems a bit
large, but I will supply it that way.

>> That Merello copyright really has little to do with the current driver. As
>> Realtek included it in their source, I left it in, but consider it to be an
>> honorary citation.
> 
> That part is fine, what is not fine is the "All rights reserved" portion, which
> contradicts the GPL.

Yes, it is schizophrenic, but I left it the way it was.

Larry
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